Dickson, an Infant v. Gastl

OPINION

By MATTHEWS, J.

The plaintiff obtained a judgment against the defendant, who was a lessor of real estate, on account of personal injuries alleged to have been received through the negligence of the defendant in failing to use reasonable care in maintaining a common passageway. The premises were occupied by several tenants, and the place where the injuries were alleged to have been received was an outside stairway used by several tenants, and of which the lessor retained control. The plaintiff’s father was one of these tenants and the plaintiff was a minor son sixteen years old at the…